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    The Commentariolus (Little Commentary) is Nicolaus Copernicus's brief outline of an early version of his revolutionary heliocentric theory of the universe...
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    hypothesibus motuum coelestium a se constitutis commentariolus—commonly referred to as the Commentariolus. It was a succinct theoretical description of...
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    replacement of the equant by two epicycles used by Copernicus in the Commentariolus was found in an earlier work by Ibn al-Shatir (d. c. 1375) of Damascus...
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    summarized in several propositions, as Copernicus himself did in his early Commentariolus that he handed only to friends, probably in the 1510s. The "little commentary"...
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  • Copernicus put forward his theory of heliocentrism in the manuscript Commentariolus anonymously, in part because of his employment as a law clerk for a...
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    Scientific career Copernican heliocentrism Copernican Revolution Works Commentariolus De revolutionibus orbium coelestium Locationes mansorum desertorum "Monetae...
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    The "Copernican Revolution" is named for Nicolaus Copernicus, whose Commentariolus, written before 1514, was the first explicit presentation of the heliocentric...
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    referred to as the Commentariolus. A physician's library list dating to 1514 includes a manuscript whose description matches the Commentariolus, so Copernicus...
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    sive qvod noctv luceant, siue alias ob causas, lunariae nominantur, commentariolus : & obiter de alijs etiam rebus quæ in tenebris lucent : inferunter...
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  • Scientific career Copernican heliocentrism Copernican Revolution Works Commentariolus De revolutionibus orbium coelestium Locationes mansorum desertorum "Monetae...
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    Sultanate of Malacca in present-day Malaysia. 1512: Copernicus writes Commentariolus, and proclaims the Sun the center of the Solar System. 1512: The southern...
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  • in 1514 in a manuscript essay, "De hypothesibus motuum coelestium commentariolus" (Brief Commentary on the Hypotheses of Heavenly Movements), and then...
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    replacement of the equant by two epicycles used by Copernicus in the Commentariolus paralleled the work of Ibn al-Shatir one century earlier. Ibn al-Shatir's...
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    had engaged in controversy with Campion. De persecvtione Anglicana commentariolus a collegio Anglicano Romano hoc anno 1582 in vrbe editus et iam denuo...
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    he had distributed his ideas among friends, with manuscripts called Commentariolus. In the 1530s, he was urged to publish by many, yet still hesitated...
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  • Bologna. A. Romer, "The welcoming of Copernicus's de revolutionibus: The commentariolus and its reception" Physics in Perspective, 1(2): 157–183, 1999. Domenico...
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    mentioned al-Battani no fewer than 23 times, and also mentions him in the Commentariolus. Tycho Brahe, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei...
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    sive qvod noctv luceant, siue alias ob causas, lunariae nominantur, commentariolus : & obiter de alijs etiam rebus quæ in tenebris lucent : inferunter...
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    Scientific career Copernican heliocentrism Copernican Revolution Works Commentariolus De revolutionibus orbium coelestium Locationes mansorum desertorum "Monetae...
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    ISBN 978-0-03-029558-4. Edward Rosen, Three Copernican Treatises: The Commentariolus of Copernicus, The Letter against Werner, The Narratio Prima of Rheticus...
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  • to seek him out. It is unknown whether he had access to Copernicus' Commentariolus, an unsigned, unpublished outline of Copernicus' revolutionary heliocentric...
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    used to denote a poetic drama. Nicolaus Copernicus begins to write Commentariolus, an abstract of what will eventually become his heliocentric astronomy...
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  • collectio Marciana (p. 292); Scholiorum collectio Londinensis (p. 442); Commentariolus Byzantinus (pp. 565–586). Immanuel Bekker, Anecdota Graeca, Volume 2...
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    from his own statement in a preliminary unpublished sketch called the Commentariolus. By the time he published De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, he had...
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    1460–1461), MS Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Lat. qu. 488, fols 58r-59v, 59v-65r Commentariolus de vita Victorini Feltrensis (ca. 1462–1465), in Il pensiero pedagogico...
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  • First Draft of Copernicus's Planetary Theory: A Translation of the Commentariolus with Commentary by Noel M. Swerdlow in the Proceedings of the American...
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    Paolo Ricci (Camillo Renato) moves to Augsburg. Nicolaus Copernicus's Commentariolus, outlining his theory of heliocentrism, is written by this date. January...
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  • nostri saeculi Martyrum in Anglia, etc. (Mainz, 1550, and Bruges, 1583) Commentariolus de vitae ratione et martyrio octodecim Cartusianorum qui in Anglia sub...
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    publici libri V (Augsburg, 1784; Ghent, 1823; Rome, 1832) De usu publici commentariolus (Augsburg, 1784; Ghent, 1823) Historische Bemerkungen über das sogenannte...
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  • Gulielmo II rege conditus pro expeditione ad Terram Sanctam suscepienda". Commentariolus de subfeudis ex iure langobardico et neapolitano. Naples: Tipografia...
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